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2015 International Festival of Arts & Ideas

Any Way You Slice It

Given the scope of the task, the website for the International Festival of Arts & Ideas is surprisingly good at telling us what’s going on over the next 16 days....

Any Way You Slice It

Given the scope of the task, the website for the International Festival of Arts & Ideas is surprisingly good at telling us what’s going on over the next 16 days....

Shaunette Wilson as Puck

Feeling Puckish

You know things are bad when the mythical mischief-maker and riddle-speaker Puck has had enough of mischief and riddles. Draped in skins, bearing ritualistic markings and skewed horns, the wily...

Feeling Puckish

You know things are bad when the mythical mischief-maker and riddle-speaker Puck has had enough of mischief and riddles. Draped in skins, bearing ritualistic markings and skewed horns, the wily...

Tim Palmieri of The Z3

Jamming Signal

Utter the words “jam band” in front of this writer and prepare for eye rolls. Too many times he’s been promised a transcendent musical experience, only to be stuck listening...

Jamming Signal

Utter the words “jam band” in front of this writer and prepare for eye rolls. Too many times he’s been promised a transcendent musical experience, only to be stuck listening...

Brandon Smith at Joker’s Wild Comedy Club

Inside, Jokes

You expect a block known for its famed Italian restaurants to attract a few wiseguys, but not like this. From door to stage, the Joker’s Wild Comedy Club on Wooster...

Inside, Jokes

You expect a block known for its famed Italian restaurants to attract a few wiseguys, but not like this. From door to stage, the Joker’s Wild Comedy Club on Wooster...

Eric Mikita, a.k.a. Cers, tagging on Water Street

Tagging Along

Heading west on Water Street from Olive, with a long highway embankment on the left, you pass shuttered Mexican restaurant Cancun’s, its stucco blue trim now accenting plywood-covered windows. Beneath...

Tagging Along

Heading west on Water Street from Olive, with a long highway embankment on the left, you pass shuttered Mexican restaurant Cancun’s, its stucco blue trim now accenting plywood-covered windows. Beneath...

West Cove Studio & Gallery

Pressed for Time

There’s a former factory in West Haven whose history lives in its heavily scored floorboards, shredded up by sharp edges of heavy machinery since the building’s construction in 1910. In...

Pressed for Time

There’s a former factory in West Haven whose history lives in its heavily scored floorboards, shredded up by sharp edges of heavy machinery since the building’s construction in 1910. In...